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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Add from Catalog sometimes adds Connection and Asset, sometimes just Asset

We noticed that when adding a Data Asset from a Catalog into a Watson Studio Project it sometimes just adds the Data Asset into the project while sometimes it adds the Data Asset and a Connection into the project. It's not obvious what causes the ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Watson Studio does not show preview for Parquet file imported through Data Refinery

It would be ideal to have a preview of the data in the parquet file itself for validation that the asset being loaded has successfully imported into the catalog.
over 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Not under consideration

Watson Studio can not generate Parquet preview with Double column

We created a Parquet file through a Scala notebook containing a Double column which Data Studio could not read / render. When changing that column to String Data Refinery is able to render the preview.
over 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Not under consideration

Want the TImestamp to accept fraction of 6 nanoseconds in SPSS Modeler v16 and v17 or latest.

I have experienced an issue with the use of milli/nano seconds as a timestamp value. I wish it can be looked at and resolved ASAP. I 've also log a case to the IBM Supports team on the 29 May 2018 . Case number: TS000968201. In surrmary, In SP...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Document how to setup hive for acid transactions

HDInsight make it super easy to use Hive ACID transactions - can we make it easier for users to setup hive transactions on Analytics Engine? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuredatalake/2017/04/06/azure-hdinsight-3-6-five-things-that-will-make...
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Document how to configure Hive LLAP

Hive LLAP provides large performance improvements. Can we add to the IAE documentation how to configure it? Azure make this especially easy by provide LLAP by default with certain cluster types - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/in...
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Cannot use Watson API Explorer on a Watson Discovery instance in Germany

I cannot use Watson API Explorer on a Watson Discovery instance created in Germany region; the default request URL is https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/discovery/api (unchangeable) while German URL is https://gateway-fra.watsonplatform.net/discov...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SPSS Statistics should calculate "test and extimate of population variance".

My customer would like to get "test and extimate of population variance" on SPSS Statistics (not sample variance). But I can't find "test and extimate of population mean" on SPSS Statistics. SPSS Statistics should calculate "test and extimate of p...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Statistics should add "95% confidence interval of population variance".

My customer would like to get "95% confidence interval of population variance" on SPSS Statistics. But I can't find "95% confidence interval of population variance" on SPSS Statistics. SPSS Statistics should add "95% confidence interval of populat...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

log rotation does not specify the requirment

If the customer does not have write access to the folder that creates the log, the customer knows that it will not be logged. However, the manual log rotation does not specify the required authority for the folder in which the log is created.As a ...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration